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My music is a mix of ethno ambient compositions and improvisations with influences from many different cultures. Over the years I have recorded a range of quite diverse music either on my own or together with other musicians, who I like to thank for their kind contributions. I'm sure there is something for everybody's taste, please check it out!

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Thomas Wiegandt and friends - Dolce Vita - the music of life (2012)
> Dolce Vita <-> Varieté De La Vie <-> Living And Alive <-> Vielfalt Des Lebens <
Acoustic true vibration music, which is all about life in a poetic and passionate way. It's not polished, but perfect as it is - in its imperfection and uniqueness. Lots of different sounds and tunes, talking and singing in different languages. Life and music: it's good to keep both natural and real. Dedicated to the generous nature of the universe and the ancestors, who look after us.
Music played, written and edited by Thomas Wiegandt 2002-2012 with the help of these friends: (1) Dink Rowe: voc. - (3,8,11,19) Basil Schur: clarinet - (4,10,22) Roxan Riou: voc. - (6,15,17) Seán: voc. - (12) Aleesha Wiegandt: voc. - (16,20) Ailin Becker: calimba, perc. - (23) Mark Minard: drum - (24) Sarah Zugno: voc. - Refléxion Inutile was written in Paris ~1980 by Corinne ? or Natalie Benaim
The CD has 24 tracks with a total playing time of 67:39

Thomas Wiegandt and friends - Tribal Jazz Jam (2009)
8 men with with very different musical skills and the willingness to play improvised music meet in a room full of musical instruments ... the result: a magic musical carpet, trancy with driving rhythms and unusual harmonies - free,new and yet connected and together - a spirited Tribal Jazz Jam ! Dedicated to Sun Ra, who I was lucky to meet in Cairo in 1984 in a small jazz club.
Music by Ben Russell, Dave, Dick Richards, Dink Rowe, Gert Neuberger, Ian Collins, Noel Bourke, Thomas Wiegandt
recorded at Ballybane, Ballydehob, Co.Cork, Ireland 26-11-09
edited by Thomas Wiegandt
The CD has 19 tracks with a total playing time of 48:50

Thomas Wiegandt - A minor Love Affair- ambient guitar music (2009)RECOMMENDED 2
A pleasant and harmonious collection of ambient music by Thomas Wiegandt played mostly in the key of A minor on guitar, mandolin and sitalin - with some transmissions from ancient times plus some more recent classical and popular references ...
The CD has 11 tracks with a total playing time of 49:00
Feedback: "This is really good !" (daughter Aleesha Wiegandt, 8 years of age)

Kaleidoscope - a multi-instrumental experience (2008)
On this CD multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt plays 23 different musical instruments. These 23 original tracks have been recorded over 23 years and cover a broad spectrum of multi-cultural music. The listener may decide if there is any significance to the number 23, or if this is just a coincidence with actually no meaning at all. In any case: we await your feedback - kcabdeef. Total playing time of 75:48

Thomas Wiegandt and Ailin Becker- West Cork Gamelan - Ambient Percussion (2007)
Relaxing and melodic ambient percussion music, inspired by Indonesian Gamelan music, played on a variety of intruments and found objects, recorded in West Cork.
The CD has 17 tracks with a total playing time of 60:08

Thomas Wiegandt - Beyond The Strings (2007)
Instrumental guitar music to dream and drift downstream ... or maybe just to listen to ...
Thomas Wiegandt finally releases some of his own guitar compositions and improvisation... likely to be enjoyed by people who in this fast paced third millenium with all its technolgy and gadgets still like to listen to just a humble acoustic guitar or like to create a pleasurable ambience ...
The CD has 21 tracks with a total playing time of 79:36

Thomas Wiegandt - African Style Acoustic Guitar (2007)
This is a selection of acoustic guitar pieces more or less influenced by various kinds of African music ... sunshine vibrations transmitted into the Now from the ever present ancestors ...
Musicians: Thomas Wiegandt: guitar, sitalin --- Ailin Becker: 2nd guitar(5), sawblade sanza (10,15) --- Norman Collins: 2nd guitar(2)
The CD has 15 tracks with a total playing time of 58:50

Ethnic Forgery - music from around the world (2006)
An amazing variety of acoustic ethnic music played on many different musical instruments from around the globe. The CD has been recorded in West Cork, Ireland by multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt, being joined by various local and international musicians. They play a range of both lively and meditative pieces inspired by African, American, Asian and other musical traditions.
The musicians involved are Ailin Becker, Jeremy Baines, Andy Carling, James Casey-Ellis, Norman Collins, Dearbhail Connon, Doctor Dink, Toby Eaton, Frank Germuth, Markus Hohmann, Ato Mariano, Gert Neuberger, Katie Nixon, Dick Richards, Ben Russell, Basil Schur. The CD has 24 tracks with a total playing time of 70:50

Drumming In The Streets - Tribal Rhythms recorded in West Cork (2005)RECOMMENDED 3
This drumming CD has been recorded live in the streets of Bantry, Skibbereen and Clonakilty in West Cork, Ireland during several festivals. It captures the real tribal feel of music recorded outdoors. Percussionist Thomas Wiegandt, joined by various local and international musicians, plays a range of both lively and meditative rhythms with influences from African, native American, Irish and Asian musical traditions. The musical instruments played are congas, the African djembe drum, djundjun bass drums, a variety of bells and shakers, didgeridoo and sun-shin (a Chinese type of banjo). This CD also features some unique individual voices. The musicians involved are Ailin Becker, Dearbhail Connon, Doctor Dink, Toby Eaton, Frank Germuth, Ato Mariano, and Urs Wenk. The CD has 20 tracks with a total playing time of 76:28
Feedback: "It sounds vibrant and has a real edge to it."
(Dearbhail Connon, film maker West Cork)

Hear and Now: Coming Together - Music Improvisations from West-Cork (2002)
Acoustic music recorded in West Cork, Ireland. Exploring the vast scope of music improvisation became an exciting journey into the unknown full of magic and surprises. The musicians come from very different musical backgrounds and the improvisations do not necessarily represent the individual musician’s usual type or style of music. This CD has been funded by the arts office of the Cork County Council in 2002.
Musicians: Jeremy Baines: Flute --- Sarah Cunningham: Viola da Gamba, Vielle --- Sarah Groser: Viola da Gamba --- Clair Lalor: Flute --- Mark Minard: Xylophone, Drums --- Thomas Riedmuller: Guitar, Flute --- Thomas Wiegandt (Project Co-ordinator): Guitar, Mandolin, African Lute, Flute, Xylophone, Talking Drum, Percussion, Calimba. Recording Studio: Drumming Centre West Cork, Ballydehob, West Cork
The CD has 14 tracks with a total playing time of 47:40
Review: “This album could certainly find a place in the record collection of any person who listens to the nature around them, notices that magnificent dawn or glorious sunset or wants to investigate their inner self. File under contemplative and thoughtful, and enjoy it.” (Marcus Connaughton - RTE Radio - Cork)

The Jungle Inside - acoustic exotic ambient music (1991)
This is jungle music! The music is totally improvised and has been recorded 1991 during a 2 hour session in a room with special acoustics at Durrus Bay Studio, West Cork, Ireland. No sound effects or filters have been applied.
Musicians:
Thomas Wiegandt: drums, percussion, bells, flutes
Jeremy Baines: flutes, vocals, hooveridoo, birds
Gitta Ledergerber (guest):percussion, bells
Time: 41:55 minutes

Time Temple: Reflections (1989)
The music on this CD is ambient music to slow down and to enjoy being in the moment, being in a time temple...
The improvisations, played mainly in eastern scales on acoustic instruments, create a peaceful and meditative atmosphere. The different pieces are reflections of different moods, ever changing with the flow of life.
Improvised music is an authentic free flow of energy and vibration in the present moment and thus the creation of an instant composition by the Spirit. The music has been been recorded in 1988 in West Cork, Ireland.
This CD is similar to the Time Temple - Present Moments CD, but played on various different instruments.
Thomas Wiegandt: Harp-zither, percussion
Jeremy Baines: Flutes, ocarinas, bells, euklang, hooveridoo
The CD has 16 tracks with a total playing time of 44:41

Time Temple: Present Moments - Ambient Zen Music for Harp (1988)
Relaxing and time dissolving eastern sounding Zen harp music to enjoy the present moment whatever you might be doing...
This purely acoustic music has been composed and played by Thomas Wiegandt on a beautifully sounding one hundred year old harp zither.
In his own words: "This music has been inspired by Japanese Zen music played on a zither called the Koto. As I did not have a Koto, I used a Bavarian harp-zither, which had been built in 1903 by Kerschensteiner for my great-grandfather Heinrich Reuss."
The improvisations played in different scales and moods represent the flow and change of the everlasting and timeless Now. These tracks have been recorded in 1988 in West Cork, Ireland and finally have been transferred to CD in 2004. Enjoy!
The CD has 16 tracks with a total playing time of 50:38
Feedback: “I like the CD very very much - and am listening to it right now. (all day actually).” (Aranos - Czech musician living in Ireland)

Thomas Wiegandt: Out There - Somewhere ... - a musical expedition (1984)
A “Kraut Rock” music collage of nicely diverse pieces surfaced after 20 years.
(“Kraut Rock”, meanwhile a trade mark, is a derogative in the Enlish language for the inventive and highly individual Rock music in Germany in the 1970s)
All acoustic and electric instruments have been played and recorded by multi-intsrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt in a farm house in the small village of Calle in the north of Germany in 1983/84. Only single takes were recorded on tape cassette, no overdubbing of instruments, several instrument are sometimes played simultaneous at the same time.
Guest artists: tom cat Jimmy Kater and film star Marika Roekk. Straight transfer from original tape in 2004. Sound editing by PeterSai-Ngarm in 2007. The CD has 16 tracks with a total playing time of 57:44

Cosmic Radio - Calle 33 (1983/84)
“Kraut Rock” jam sessions from a remote place.
(“Kraut Rock”, meanwhile a trade mark, is a derogative in the Enlish language for the inventive and highly individual Rock music in Germany in the 1970s) Once upon a time there was a community of unusual individuals who lived together in
an old farm house in the countryside in northern Germany. There postal address was Calle 33. They experimented with a variety of alternative and unconventional ways of life, successful or not, I think no one will be ever able to tell. They had a lot of quite common as well as strange self-built musical instruments and they played music, but this was something that just happened and unfolded as by magic by tuning into cosmic radio! None of the players was too sure how this happened and it did not matter one bit! As it happened some of the spontaneous sessions were recorded onto magnetic tapes, some of which got mouldy, but some others were saved and digitally transferred onto CD, for you to listen to these nights full of musical surprises that no one can remember too clearly ... Musicians: Kira Boschen, Martin Gust, Martina Fahrenberg, Thomas Wiegandt, Wolfgang Steinke